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20090089273 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ITEMS - A method of detecting associations between items can include identifying a plurality of items represented in a data repository from which to select items to recommend to a target user, each item including one or more attributes. A degree of fit between an item's attributes and other items is calculated. The degree of fit can indicate the relevance of the attributes of one item to the other item. A degree of association between the two items is calculated based at least in part on the calculated degree of fit. The degree of association between the two items can indicate the relatedness of the two items. Based on this degree of association, an association between the items can be stored in a data repository. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089314 | DUPLICATE ITEM DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of detecting contextual duplicate items can include identifying a plurality of representations of items in a data repository, each item representation including one or more textual attributes. A degree of fit between an item representation's attributes and other items can be calculated. The degree of fit can reflect the relevance of the attributes of one item to the other item. A degree of association between the two item representations can be calculated based at least in part on the calculated degree of fit. The degree of association between the two item representations can reflect the similarity of the two items. The degree of association between the two item representations can be assessed to determine whether the items are contextual duplicates. | 04-02-2009 |
20090132459 | PROCESSES FOR IMPROVING THE UTILITY OF PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS GENERATED BY A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - A recommendation system increases the diversity of item recommendations provided to a target user by using item similarity data to filter an initial recommendation set. In one embodiment, selected items are filtered from the initial recommendation set based on similarity scores that represent degrees of similarity between particular items. The similarity scores may be generated based on an automated comparison of item attributes or content, or based on another measure of item similarity. | 05-21-2009 |
20090171754 | WIDGET-ASSISTED DETECTION AND EXPOSURE OF CROSS-SITE BEHAVIORAL ASSOCIATIONS - A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events to the content provider system. The content provider system analyses the reported events to detect behavioral associations between particular web sites, web pages, products, and/or other types of items. The widgets may also retrieve and display behavior-based content that is based on these item-to-item behavioral associations. For example, when a user views a particular web page, a widget on that page may request and display descriptions of, and links to, other sites or pages that are (a) behaviorally related to the page being viewed or an item represented thereon, and/or (b) behaviorally related to the past browsing activities of the particular user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171755 | BEHAVIOR-BASED GENERATION OF SITE-TO-SITE REFERRALS - A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events to the content provider system. The content provider system analyses the reported events to detect behavioral associations between particular web sites, web pages, products, and/or other types of items. The widgets may also retrieve and display behavior-based content that is based on these item-to-item behavioral associations. For example, when a user views a particular web page, a widget on that page may request and display descriptions of, and links to, other sites or pages that are (a) behaviorally related to the page being viewed or an item represented thereon, and/or (b) behaviorally related to the past browsing activities of the particular user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171968 | WIDGET-ASSISTED CONTENT PERSONALIZATION BASED ON USER BEHAVIORS TRACKED ACROSS MULTIPLE WEB SITES - A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events to the content provider system. The content provider system analyses the reported events to detect behavioral associations between particular web sites, web pages, products, and/or other types of items. The widgets may also retrieve and display behavior-based content that is based on these item-to-item behavioral associations. For example, when a user views a particular web page, a widget on that page may request and display descriptions of, and links to, other sites or pages that are (a) behaviorally related to the page being viewed or an item represented thereon, and/or (b) behaviorally related to the past browsing activities of the particular user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172021 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ACTIONS PERFORMED ON MULTIPLE REMOTE SERVERS - A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events to the content provider system. The content provider system analyses the reported events to detect behavioral associations between particular web sites, web pages, products, and/or other types of items. The widgets may also retrieve and display behavior-based content that is based on these item-to-item behavioral associations. For example, when a user views a particular web page, a widget on that page may request and display descriptions of, and links to, other sites or pages that are (a) behaviorally related to the page being viewed or an item represented thereon, and/or (b) behaviorally related to the past browsing activities of the particular user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172551 | BEHAVIOR-BASED SELECTION OF ITEMS TO PRESENT ON AFFILIATE SITES - A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events to the content provider system. The content provider system analyses the reported events to detect behavioral associations between particular web sites, web pages, products, and/or other types of items. The widgets may also retrieve and display behavior-based content that is based on these item-to-item behavioral associations. For example, when a user views a particular web page, a widget on that page may request and display descriptions of, and links to, other sites or pages that are (a) behaviorally related to the page being viewed or an item represented thereon, and/or (b) behaviorally related to the past browsing activities of the particular user. | 07-02-2009 |
20110173078 | INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BY FILTERING - A recommendation system increases the diversity of item recommendations provided to a target user by using item similarity data to filter an initial recommendation set. In one embodiment, selected items are filtered from the initial recommendation set based on similarity scores that represent degrees of similarity between particular items. The similarity scores may be generated based on an automated comparison of item attributes or content, or based on another measure of item similarity. | 07-14-2011 |
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20090067966 | TIRE SUPPORT APPARATUS - A tire hanger that is rapidly mountable and dismountable from a substantially horizontal hoist member of a vehicle-lifting device or hoist. The tire hanger includes a hoist engagement end and a tire engagement end. The hoist engagement end is configured for the rapid mounting and dismounting to the hoist member and is advantageously achieved without the use of fasteners to secure the tire hanger to the hoist member. Other embodiments provide for the tire engagement end to be pivotable from the hoist engagement end so that the tire hanger may be rotated from a stowed position to a deployed position while remaining in place on the hoist member. In yet other embodiments, a shield may be placed over the tire engagement end to protect workers from being jabbed from a deployed tire hanger that is not holding a tire. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MORTGAGING - A method that provides industry specific consulting, management, and production services to individual IP producers. More specifically, the method provides intellectual property leveraging strategies, accounting, and finance methods for individual IP producers based on a contractual relationship wherein a business entity delivers the industry specific consulting, management, and production services to the individual IP producer based on the evaluated value of the produced IP product. | 03-12-2009 |
20100299231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MORTGAGING - A method that provides industry specific consulting, management, and production services to individual IP producers. More specifically, the method provides intellectual property leveraging strategies, accounting, and finance methods for individual IP producers based on a contractual relationship wherein a business entity delivers the industry specific consulting, management, and production services to the individual IP producer based on the evaluated value of the produced IP product. | 11-25-2010 |
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20080244740 | BROWSER-INDEPENDENT EDITING OF CONTENT - A system for editing a web page includes receiving the web page in a normalized form, where the normalized form is independent of any browser form. The page may be displayed to a user, where the web page has been translated from the normalized form to a browser-dependent form, and editable by the user. The web page may be a Wiki or collaborate web page. Overall, described in detail above is a unified editing system for editing a collaborative web page is described. The collaborative web page having a normalized form that is independent of any browser form. The system displays the collaborative web page that has been translated from the normalized form to a browser-dependent form to a user, wherein the browser-dependent form of the collaborative web page is editable by a user. The unified editing system receives from the user the edited collaborative web page in the browser-dependent form. Other features and aspects of the invention are also disclosed. | 10-02-2008 |
20090055460 | GENERATED CONTENT FOR EDITABLE WEB PAGES - A method and system for WYSIWYG editing of dynamic content on editable web pages. Generated content is content that is received periodically from a dynamic source. Generated content may be represented on an editable web page by instructions that describe how to generate the dynamic content. The generated content system presents generated elements in a non-editable manner while allowing modification of their instructions and also allowing complete editing functionality of any surrounding static content. Thus, the generated content system allows the user to include generated content in an editable web page in a way that clearly identifies the generated content during editing and still allows the user to modify the content. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055755 | REPRESENTING EDITABLE ATTRIBUTES OF EMBEDDED CONTENT - A representational editing system for WYSIWYG editing of editable web pages with embedded content elements. The representational editing system presents embedded content elements in an editable manner that represents their actual appearance on the web page. Typically, the representational editing system displays an image in place of the embedded content. The representational editing system enables users to modify editable attributes of embedded content in a WYSIWYG editing environment. | 02-26-2009 |
20090320119 | EXTENSIBLE CONTENT SERVICE FOR ATTRIBUTING USER-GENERATED CONTENT TO AUTHORED CONTENT PROVIDERS - A method and system allows a user to add content to a displayable content container (e.g., web page) that specifies at least one modifiable portion, where the modifiable portion is served by a server operated by one entity, but provided to the server by a service operated by another entity. The modifiable portion is attributable to the one entity and remaining content in the displayable content container is not editable by the users. Other features, such as user authentication mechanisms, are also described herein. | 12-24-2009 |